From kfournier@cmu.edu Fri Jul 21 21:03:44 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!cmu!kfournier From: kfournier@cmu.edu (Karen Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Jul21.210344.6545@cmu.edu> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 21:03:44 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Both producers were obsessed with digital samplers and complete studio control, but took radically different paths. Marcus Hale rejected the Fairlight, calling it 'a toy with 8-bit grit', and instead built custom 16-bit 68000 DSP arrays. Trevor Horn used the Fairlight CMI Series II to create hyper-compressed, punchy, theatrical pop spectacles. Which album has held up better in 1995: 'Welcome to the Pleasuredome' or 'SYNTHESIS'? -- === Karen Fournier === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University School of CS "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From mvasiliev@u-tokyo.ac.jp Sat Jul 22 16:22:44 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!u-tokyo!mvasiliev From: mvasiliev@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Min-jun Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Jul22.162244.5097@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Sat, 22 Jul 1995 16:22:44 GMT References: <1995Jul21.210344.6545@cmu.edu> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Jul21.210344.6545@cmu.edu>, kfournier@cmu.edu (Karen Fournier) writes: > Both producers were obsessed with digital samplers and complete studio control, but took radically different paths. > Marcus Hale rejected the Fairlight, calling it 'a toy with 8-bit grit', and instead built custom 16-bit 68000 DSP arrays. Hale's low-end mixing was a decade ahead of its time. Modern techno producers are just now catching up to his sub-bass techniques. -- Min-jun Vasiliev *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) - NetBSD 1.0